brucedjones

yeh i know, i was a bit stupid and didnt try resting the computer (but to be fair to me when was the last time that changed much :)) wvdial works fine now, but i will ahve a word to that developer breaking my favourite dialer so isdn doesnt work

actually i did, same problem. its getting quite annoying. i tried changing the dial command but that didnt work, the only thing that changed was if i left the command blank i would get a message saying voice line or something.

ive been using an ISDN internet connection for quite some time now but due to a change in how you specify a device in gnome-ppp, (it has to detect it, wish it would look in the right places though) ive resorted to trying to get wvdial to work manually. ive checked wvdial.conf and everything is in order i think. my MSN gets sent, and then the dial command is run, but then i get the error "No Dialtone". this wouldnt seem so weird if i had yanked the cable out and torn it up... but i havent. ive also tried the mandrake way of doing things through the control center, but as always with 10.0 this has never worked. can anyone help. ideally a sample wvdial.conf for isdn would be nice, as i cant post mine as its on a different computer with no working way of getting the information aside from sitting there and writeing the whole thing o0ut by hand...

cool i had to download perl and perl base but i found those easy enough and, post installation drak tools were working again :) thanks

yeh i always get those comments with cooker,and i try not to. its just a bit more fun when things go wrong :)

anyway i tried doing updatedb and its still not working, would it help to reinstall perl from source seeing as the error messages im getting seem to be perl related??

yesterday i tried to launch drakconf but nothing happened, so i tried rpmdrake, nothing happened. i tried from a terminal and got hte following message "Segmentation fault (core dumped)". so i tried to install some software using urpmi and hte command line and got THIS message

Can't locate URPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/urpm.pm line 13.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/urpm.pm line 13.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 23.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/urpmi line 23.

now the only thing i changed before it all stopped working was that i installed mono from a cooker repository. im guessing this somehow changed, deleted some perl things but i wouldnt know where to start with fixing that. has anyone got any ideas??

sounds hopeful, i was actually looking at just getting a BT kit which comes with one of their cards...but from past experience im suspicous its actually just a different card with BT plastered all over it like my ISDN card. ill look into it a little further. oh and does anyone know if mandrake control center can setp up wireless networking or do i have to do it manually??

hhmmmm i dont know if you missunderstood, i dont need a howto, just a product suggestion. basiclaly it would be nice if someone could suggest a card that they have (used) that they know works. and we will be getting a wireless router which should set up the network dhcp etc...wont it, ie the BT voyager router thing (sorry i dont remember names)

next month we FINALLY get broadband where i live and are thinking about getting it set up so its wireless. i guess it doesnt reall matter about the router as i guess any old wireless router will work (or will it??) more so the network car really, i have a PC on mandrake cooker and was wondering if anyone could suggest a cheap wireless network card that would be compatible with mandrake.

....i say cheap, i wouldnt worry about that, just in relation to other wireless network cards i guess

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man someone knew, and its just me and my m8s on a GREAT day out.

anywayim pleased with the OS im not complaining about the OS, im asking a question about GDM becuase i thought someone here might be able to help., which you have, thanks.

well im using GDM supplied with garnome (which is jsut gnome 2.8.0 btw) so i wouldnt of thought that would work as garnome resides within my home directory, but correct me if im wrong becuase it would be nice to have a computer that works alright for once.

im either blind or trying to do something that apparently i dont need to. but how do you add window managers to the session list thing in GDM. i want to add an option for garnome

i recently compiled garnome to use as my default desktop as i could not find any credible gnome 2.8 rpms. and i was wondering how i can set it so that i used GDM from garnome instead of the standard KDM or GDM that comes in the rpms. ie set a config file to use gdm instead of kdm,xdm etc. can anyone help??

wow thats awesome. should be ok to install them (fingers crossed) . thanks for the help

bruce

yeh thats the kind of thing im looking for, although...something a little more function might be better, and im not sure how similar syntax as, although ive only played for about a minute because i have college now. has anyone else got any suggestions? if not ill just have to make do but...

i was wondering if theres anyway to get some form of qbasic working in linux, so that i can work on my coursework at home.

ok ive gone for the reinstall, what a headache

i booted into run level one and changed the passwords and got no complaints, but i still cant log in under any of the other run levels, i tried with other virtual terminals aswell. have you got anyother suggestions??

single mode sounds useful, but i dont know how to do it, i use lilo but get a graphical menu.

i think i explained the problem badly, when i try to login in as a user, linux doesnt recognise the user, ie. i get to the login prompt, type in "root" and all that happens is i get a new login prompt underneath the old one. the same happens when i try other usernames.

a few hours ago i reset my computer after setting it so that X wouldnt start when linux does, when it started to boot again it stalled for a long time when starting "NFS Daemon" then as i was greeted by a login prompt i entered my username and....it didnt work, i tried again, i tried root, i tried a backup username, nothing. it didnt recognise any of them. this isnt the first time my login information has misteriously changed, a few months ago my root password changed.

has anyone got any idea whats causing this and...even better, how to fix it, im not sure i could stand a fresh install

thanks, i did what you said but i still had the [config.h].in file missing thing, at a guess i copyed a file named config.h and renamed it to [config.h].in, ran make again and it worked fine.

that doesnt work either, but i assumed you didnt with stuff from cvs because those files dont appear until after youve run autogen. either way i got the same error when it came to the make command, although there was a little more information, which just confuses me even more. is this a problem with the make file??

config.status: creating [config.h]
config.status: error: cannot find input file: [config.h].in
make: *** [stamp-h] Error 1

a few days ago i decided to try out the new X.org release, with xcompmgr, so i could check out the drop shadows and transparency but im haveing trouble getting it to compile, i downloaded it from cvs and ran ./autogen.sh and the output is as follows.

autoreconf-2.5x: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf-2.5x: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf-2.5x: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
autoreconf-2.5x: `aclocal.m4' is unchanged
autoreconf-2.5x: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf-2.5x: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf-2.5x: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf-2.5x: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf-2.5x: running: automake --add-missing --copy
configure.ac: 9: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not `AC_CONFIG_HEADER'
configure.ac: 9: required file `./[config.h].in' not found
autoreconf-2.5x: automake failed with exit status: 1

i googled for the error but could only come up with a problem with old versions of automake and autoconf, so i updated both (automake-1.9 and autoconf-2.5) but it made no difference.

tia, bruce

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ok i fixed the problem...for anyone interested if you go to setup in gnome-ppp and under the modem tab click on init strings and then what i did was move any strings that were already there, down one, then i added an init string at the top which was "AT&E0" followed by my MSN number.

although i think gnome-ppp should do this by default seeing as though it has an ISDN option anyway...i might have to take this up with a higher power :)